Mekelle University Legal Aid Center

Mekelle University Legal Aid Center

Mekelle University Legal Aid Center

Legal Aid Center

The Legal Aid Center was established in 2004 to act as a center of community service for the indigent. It has now five branches of community service outlets in the Tigray regional state including three outside Mekelle. The Legal Aid Center counselled, assisted and represented so many indigent clients. The Center has had collaborations with local, national and international organisations and has outstanding record of implementing projects.

Vision mission and objectives of the legal aid center

Vision

The MUCLG-DOL-LAC envisions at creating environment where:

Marginalized segments of the society are being provided with effective legal assistance so that their rights to equal access to justice will be a reality;

Practice oriented quality legal education is promoted and ensured;

Mission

To provide quality, professional legal services and practice-oriented legal education, and ensuring effective access to justice for the indigent and vulnerable groups in an independent and efficient manner

Objectives

MUCLG-DOL-LAC was established to achieve the following primary objectives:

Providing free legal aid service to the indigent members of the community, particularly women, children, persons with disabilities, and persons living with HIV virus;

Enhancing the capacity of law students by involving them in legal practice through clinical programs;

Serving as a resource center for researchers and volunteers who wish to provide training to students, paralegals and other legal practitioners; and

Undertake community legal literacy programs using different ways.

Values of the Legal Aid Center

Passion for Justice

Respect for human dignity

Integrity

Caring

Service Excellence & Professionalism

Voluntarism

About MU

History of Mekelle University

Mekelle University is found at the town of Mekelle in Tigray region of Northern Ethiopia , at a distance of 783 Kilometers from the Ethiopian capital.The merger the two former colleges: Mekelle Business College and Mekelle University College established the University in May 2000 by the Government of Ethiopia (Council of Ministers, Regulations No. 61/1999 of Article 3) as an autonomous higher education institution. The two colleges have their own historical developments after beginning from scratch, and have also experienced exhausting ascends and descends, with voluminous relocations from place to place.

Mekelle Business College

Mekelle Business College was first established as a school of Economics in 1987 by the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) in one of the then liberated areas of Tigray- Dejena (in Western Tigray). The main objective of the school was to train middle-level experts who could assume the financial and administrative responsibilities of the public in the then liberated areas during the armed struggle. After the downfall of the Derg regime, the School assessed the demand in the different parts of the country and designed a new curriculum to meet the demand. And, in 1991, the school was upgraded to a college offering diploma level programs and renamed Mekelle Business College, marking the establishment of the first higher institution in Tigray at the very end of the last decade of the 20th century.